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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread.
QCOM 173.20-2.0%3:22 PM EST

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To: SpudFarmer who wrote (1523)3/9/2000 10:04:00 AM
From: Jon Koplik  Read Replies (1) of 12231
 
Re : trading halts -- the theory is ... a longer than normal time period is necessary to match buy and sell orders to a point where the bid/ask spread is reasonably narrow.

(You probably already know this ...).

If PG had started trading one second after the news on lousy earnings forecasted had been announced, the best bid/ask available might have some (absurd) quote like : $20 bid, $80 ask.

Jon.
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